Fill the fuel tank, add Sta-bil, change engine oil, remove battery, check tire pressures, throw breathable cover on, close & lock unheated garage. There she sits through -40C until the snow disappears from the driveway in the Spring. I parked it some time in november, and had my first ride this year on march 28th.

 

I've got to ask.... What is this seafoam?

 

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...0407&ppt=C0126

 

At the dealer.....Buy a $250 gift card and they store it for free.

 

This past year I filled the tank and added seafoam, took battery out and left it inside on a tender, steel wool in the pipes, seat and saddle bags in the house, a good wash and wax, polish chrome, fill tire pressure to max acceptable pressure, breathable cover, and left in an unheated garage. Took the cover off and the bike looked exactly how I left it in October. Put it all back together and fired it up

 

Move! I have lived in Arizona my whole life. I can not even imagine six months of freezing cold. I'll take three months of "Damn, it's Hot"

 

I wrap mine in bubble wrap and then box it up.

 

 

On my wife's side of the bed.

 

I store mine at a local dealer. Kept on battery tender all winter in a climate controlled enviroment. Costs only $175 total for Nov/Dec to April and it gets washed before I pick it up.

I really have no other choice. I have a detached garage that is not heated. I live out in the sticks so every field mice in the area seems to think this is their winter home. I have a hard enough time keeping the mice out of the tractor and cars to worry about the Harley.

All I need to a chewed up seat or wires to worry about. I'm still trying to figure out how they managed to make a nest in my Trucks air box under the air cleaner. No visible means of entry.